Chain letters - do you forward or delete them?

Ewwwww...I hate those! I delete them. That one you got 'from a murderer' sounded creepy! I never got one like that! But I got the other kind. They're stupid. How would anyone know if you forwarded it or not? It's dumb. I don't think I ever forwarded one of those and I'm still alive. Lol.

I never repost chain letters. I don't see the point in them at all. There will be millions of people who get those letters and don't die, so you shouldn't worry about them. If there was one with jokes in, then I might repost it for the fun, but I never repost anything that could be seen as threatening to the people who I send it to.

This is a rather nasty and offensive chain letter and if I may say, malevolent. This sort of thing should be brought to the attention of the authorities. While you and I and it seems most of your responders would just delete same, some naive person or someone young and/or new to the internet might be really scared by such a thing.

I do not forward them. Most of the time I never even read them. They go straight to my email trash can. I do not get very many of them fortunately. I had an Aunt that used to send them to me all the time.

I fully expect to hear from you tomorrow. I'm still here despite many of those kinds of threats! Email ones may be recent but chain letters are as old as the postal system I'd imagine! In 50 years I've seen these silly things in various forms, and the only thing I do is trash them! A real dustbin is as effective as a cyber one. I don't know what enjoyment people get out of starting these things but as we say around here, 'little things please little minds'.

I never pass on anything that has a threat in it. There is way to much of that in life already, why add to it.

When I was at school it used to be written chain letters now with the advance of technology it's all computerized, I used to bin them then, now I delete them and send them into the wonderful world of cybertrash! That's where they belong, people who send them prey on your vulnerability, superstition etc, if people stop sending them and everyone else did the same they'd get the message and stupid chain letters would become a thing of the past. Trash em, bin em, forget em is my motto!

Id depends on the content. But when I get ones that say bad things will happen if I break the chain, than I break the chain. I don't send it because I'd rather not curse any of my friends in case they break it. I always delete all the other addresses though if I pass emails along so no one can get all the other addresses on the list.

I often receive forwarded emails. I like forwarding good emails too. It really depends on what kind of email that would be. However, I will not forward emails that have conditions that will threaten the receiver. I will only forward emails that make other people happy, not scared or miserable. If I received an email like this, I would simply delete it from my inbox.

well, i actually delete them, i dont want to think that my life or how it's going to be will be affected because of a single chain text message or because of a chain email. i sometimes forward them to my friends when i find them humorous or when i can see that the email or text has a really good message to share, but just forwarding for the heck of it, well, i really dont do that...

I delete them, I'm a chain breaking, black cat path crosser and a pole spliter.

Chain letter, I delete them. I don't even waste time reading in full. Once I sensed it's a chain letter, I'd delete. I think it's a crazy idea and I would not want to tolerate.

I delete all chain mail and most forwards. If someone cannot take the time to take out all the headers and just cut and paste and make it look neater (plus fix all the spelling errors, if there are some) and layout, I can't be bothered. When I do forward, I start it as an original message so it looks clean and don't just hit forward. I find more people read what I send when I do it that way, instead of just forwarding. I report all chain mail as spam to spam@uce.gov because that's all it is.... spam! If Ofelia visits you during the night, have your best night clothes on.... and mace!! LOL

I don't actually pay attention to the chain letters I received. Even though some of them have a lot of cuteness of its content, If there's a message "forward this message ...." I delete it immediately. I don't forward any because its just going to end up as junk mail to some of my friends.

I delete any chain letters I get. I put them in the spam section, and do not bother reading them. Chain letters are supposed to be illegal, are they not? And they prey on the fear and superstitions on the reader. There might be someone who did not forward a chain letter and when outside and a safe fell on his head, but who knows whether that was false or not? I doubt there is an ofelia Heras and if he did , he would have killed Scott Jackson anyway. So how could have Scott seen him unless ofelia walked in the room just then?

Hello ronaldinu, No, I never forward chain letters. I'm deleting it at once. I better pray really hard than forwarding it to anybody else. Much better for it will cost me much especially when I receive it through text and there is a minimum number required.

I used to receive a lot of mailed lettes like that. Through the regular post. When I got those I would read them and to be honest I thought about sending them on. But I just didn't know enough people to pass them on to for one thing, and I was always skeptical about them. So I just ended up throwing them in the garbage after a period of time. Now I get them in my email and I don't even bother to read them anymore. I jsut delete them as soon as I know what it is I am seeing. I have never gotten one like yours. Yours is an outright threat by the sounds of it. I would definitly delete that one.

OMG!!! You must answer or I will miss you!! LOL LOL

I just delete email like this or put on a spam so i won't keep recieving them.It's just nonsense things to worry about.

I delete them as I REFUSE to spread the terror!!! If a logical person like you has second thoughts about deleting, what happens to the average person receiving them??? Before forwarding the missing child, latest curse, latest attack, etc, I check with http://www.snopes.com to see if there is any truth to them. If listed as false on Snopes, I delete immediately. If listed as true on Snopes, I might forward. I just don't like forwarding false information of any kind. Even the emails that begin by saying "This was verified on Snopes", I check out myself with Snopes so I can see if it is true. Anybody can say they verified with Snopes whether they did or not. If somebody forwards a false email to me, I respond to everybody on the list with Snopes link that it is a false topic. I think the best way to stop false info is to just NOT forward it. The you are going to die tonight if you don't forward this is just the biggest line of bull chit & I REFUSE to be part of it!!! Oh, by the way, I'll see you tomorrow!!!!!!